Routledge Studies in Anthropology
Suckling: Kinship More Fluid
1st Edition
By Fadwa El Guindi
September 30, 2021
A ground-breaking ethnographic study of suckling in the Arabian Gulf , this book reenergises the study of kinship. It analyses the misunderstood and marginalized phenomenon of suckling drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Qatar over a seven-year period.Fadwa El Guindi situates suckling (often given...
The Biometric Border World: Technology, Bodies and Identities on the Move
1st Edition
By Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, Anja Simonsen
June 30, 2021
Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements.Based on ...
Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
1st Edition
By Christos Lynteris
April 01, 2021
This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the ...
Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence: A Tale of Two Lynchings
1st Edition
By Gavin Weston
March 31, 2021
This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala.The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of ...
Cultural Models of Nature: Primary Food Producers and Climate Change
1st Edition
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By Giovanni Bennardo
December 18, 2020
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the ...
Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision
1st Edition
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By Tessa Diphoorn, Erella Grassiani
September 30, 2020
Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of “security blurs” to analyse manifestations of security that are visible and identifi able, yet constructed and made up of a myriad and overlapping set of actors, roles, motivations, ...
An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism: Becoming Friends of the Earth
1st Edition
By Caroline Gatt
August 14, 2020
Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical strivings of environmental activist members of Friends of the ...
Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil
1st Edition
By Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
August 14, 2020
At the end of the 1970s, Chinese merchandise moved to Brazil via Paraguay, forming an on-the-margins-of-the-law trade chain involving the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap goods. Economic changes in the twenty-first century, including the enforcement of intellectual property rights...
Critical Times in Greece: Anthropological Engagements with the Crisis
1st Edition
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By Dimitris Dalakoglou, Georgios Agelopoulos
August 14, 2020
This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis, far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. ...
Culture as a System: How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say
1st Edition
By David B. Kronenfeld
August 14, 2020
A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content ...
Distortion: Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic
1st Edition
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By Nigel Rapport
August 14, 2020
Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or ...
Orthodox Christian Material Culture: Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven
1st Edition
By Timothy Carroll
August 14, 2020
Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gell’s work), there has been very little written on Orthodox Christianity and its use of material within religious self-formation. Eastern Orthodox ...